GOOD has compiled a list of the 100 people who are doing good in their communities across the US in 2014 and Food Shift Founder Dana Frasz made the list! Check out her profile and join us at the celebration…

In December, Local Food Lab and Edible Startups hosted a panel highlighting innovative approaches to food waste entitled, “Rising to the Food Waste Challenge.” Food Shift Program Director Kelly ErnstFriedman, along with several other food recovery entrepreneurs and innovators, sat down to discuss…

Have you heard? Food Shift is forging a deal with Andronico’s to create jobs, feed people and reduce food waste! This is an exciting new opportunity that will hopefully be used as a model to change our food system. Check…

Inspired by a curiosity about our country’s careless habit of sending food straight to landfills, the multi award-winning documentary DIVE! follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of LA…

Last month Dana Frasz led a fantastic presentation, sponsored by the Pachamama Alliance on reducing food waste. The talk was part of the Monthly Gathering Series held at the Peña Pachamama restaurant in San Francisco. Check out the presentation here! share:

Check out this audio recording of panelists including Food Shift founder Dana Frasz, Dana Gunders and Cropmobster’s Founder speaking on last month’s panel “Beyond the Green Bin.” The panel inspired lots of discussion on blogs like 350foods and Grist. share:

Thank you, Give Something Back customers! Because of your votes, Food Shift was awarded over $6,000 from the Give Something Back Foundation. Over the past 20 years, Give Something Back has donated over $5 million dollars in profits back to…

After 14 months leading our volunteer team, Tanya Chang was accepted to Duke University’s business program and will soon be heading to North Carolina! We’re excited for Tanya and grateful for all that she’s done for us at Food Shift.…

Food Shift is expanding! Our team is growing, demand for our services and expertise is skyrocketing and we’d love for you to help us take our work to the next level. Securing a van is vital for us to meet…

Would you eat scraps off other people plates to keep food from going to waste? Dana Frasz did. What started as a personal vendetta against food waste — and a 25 lb. weight gain — has now become FoodShift, a food recovery program that’s got an amazing business model for making sure that food can be shifted to those in need in a most sustainable way.

Two weeks ago Airbnb hired Food Shift to manage the recovery and redistribution of surplus food from their four-day, 800 person all-staff convention in San Francisco. Despite the wind and rain, we worked closely with Off the Grid, La Cocina,…

Each year, an obscene amount of food is wasted in the U.S. and around the world—and confusing and inconsistent food date labels are making the matter worse. Check out Director Dana Frasz’s article summarizing a new report on our bewildering date label system.